Definition of "nerve-shaken" [nerve•-shak•en]

• Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shocked. (adjective)

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• "In search of refuge for what the great naturalist John Muir called America's "tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people," you could do about as well on the interstate."
• "In an hour, having concocted some stew and baked his damper, the single-handed nerve-shaken, old sailor set sail, and I knew him no more."
• "In shallow water, too, fish are chased until they become so exhausted and nerve-shaken that they partially bury themselves in the sand, or endeavour to elude observation by concealing themselves beneath stone or coral, or by remaining passive among seaweed, trusting, no doubt, to protective tints and assimilation with their surroundings."